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Velaidum reports that he was standing at that location minutes before the meteorite struck it; he considers the event "a near-death experience". [ 4 ] The meteorite came from the asteroid belt , according to the University of Alberta researcher, and would have traveled at least 200 kilometres per hour (124 mph) just prior to impact.
The traditional way of subdividing meteorites (see Meteorites classification) is into irons, stony-irons, and two major groups of stony meteorites, chondrites and achondrites. For some of the less-studied stony meteorite falls, it is not known whether the object is chondritic; thus the number of meteorites that can be so grouped is 4% lower ...
Meteorites When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it's called a meteorite. Most meteorites found on Earth come from shattered asteroids, according to NASA .
The asteroid's provisional designation as a minor planet, "2024 YR 4", was assigned by the Minor Planet Center when its discovery was announced on 27 December 2024. [2] 2024 indicates the discovery year, the first letter, "Y", indicates that the asteroid was discovered in the second half-month of December (16 to 31 December) of that year, and "R 4" indicates that it was the 117th provisional ...
By studying the composition of meteorites that have landed over the years and the asteroids populating our solar system, astronomers have determined that about 70% of known meteorite impacts came ...
A meteorite crashed in the area of Mission, Texas, Wednesday night causing a loud boom that startled residents, authorities said. Meteorite crashes in South Texas causing startling boom ...
This is a list of largest meteorites on Earth. Size can be assessed by the largest fragment of a given meteorite or the total amount of material coming from the same meteorite fall: often a single meteoroid during atmospheric entry tends to fragment into more pieces. The table lists the largest meteorites found on the Earth's surface.
An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly a 0.28% chance of hitting Earth in about eight years, NASA says — though at one point earlier its estimate reached as high as 3.1% ...